Historian Heather Cox Richardson and this American Moment

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🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“The past has its own terrible inevitability. But it is never too late to change the future.” That’s according to historian Heather Cox Richardson, who observes that the political, racial and economic divisions in the country evoke the crises faced by the nation on the brink of the Civil War. And now as we prepare for a transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden and the nation’s first female vice-president, Kamala Harris, what can history tell us about the tumultuous moment we are living in? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.6	The past has its own terrible inevitability, but it is never too late to change the future.
1:28.7	That's according to historian Heather Cox Richardson, who observes that the political,
1:33.0	racial, and economic divisions in the country evoked the crises faced by the nation
1:37.0	on the brink of the Civil War. And now, as we prepare for a transition of power to
1:41.8	President-elect Joe Biden and the nation's first female
1:44.4	vice president, Kamala Harris. What can history tell us about the tumultuous moment we're living in?
1:50.2	Richardson, a professor of American history at Boston College and the author of How the South
1:54.5	Won the Civil War in the Popular Newsletter, Letters from an American, joins us to discuss
1:58.9	the past and the future of the American experiment.
2:01.9	That's next. After this.
2:07.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. Tomorrow, the nation will inaugurate its 46th president,
2:17.0	Joseph R. Biden, and its first female vice president
2:19.3	president carmela harris meanwhile president trump faces an impeachment trial and there is fear of another
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